Jonathan Vayness Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Developed social science models to evaluate hundreds of charities for ImpactMatters, a new nonprofit rating service that rates 1,000 charities based on their impact
• Project lead for an initiative evaluating the 100 largest direct service delivery nonprofits
• Contribute to strategic discussion on marketing, product, and design for ImpactMatters website
• Run studies for professor Dean Karlan using Qualtrics and MTurk, analyzing data in R and Excel, on topics including how best to present information to potential donors to encourage action and a positive user experience

Greater Boston Area

• Coordinate, conduct and edit interviews with local and national artists
• Author published articles after brainstorming with editors and other staff writers
• Critique and examine new music from eclectic genres of varying degrees of popularity
• Share ideas with design staff creating visual spreads for written articles

Greater Boston Area

• Conduct self-designed honors thesis on emotion and prosocial behavior under the supervision of Dr. DeSteno
• Run participants through experiments, including acting as part of deception in experiment
• Monitor participants data for experiments spanning weeks
• Engage in conversations in lab meetings on prosocial behavior and new study protocols

Greater New York City Area

• Applied knowledge of behavioral science to the design and testing of state &county welfare and education policies
• Used Human Centered Design methodology to diagnose behavioral and structural barriers facing low income individuals
• Assisted design consultations enhancing aesthetic and use of psychology in citizen-facing materials for teams from varied policy areas at MDRC
• Presented behavioral science concepts to state and county government workers to make their services more human centered
• Navigated policy landscape of conflicting interests, being flexible when need while still preserving research fidelity

• Created surveys in Qualtrics on films and television that were fielded to 1500 – 2000 people using Amazon MTurk to inform marketing campaigns
• Analyzed and cleaned data using R, as well as contributed text processing functionality to R codebase
• Visualized and presented data using ggplot2 to tell a story, influencing the decisions of non-experts
• Collaborated across a team of data scientists with different skill sets

79 JFK Street

• Implemented original behavioral economics/emotion research project with Professor Lerner
• Proofread and helped write grant and IRB proposals for multi-year studies
• Analyzed and organized dozens of video stimuli for study on emotion in anti-smoking PSAs
• Led training sessions for group of oncoming RAs on literature searches, Qualtrics, and IRB proposals
• Assisted in "Leadership Decision Making" executive education sessions teaching 40-60 business and government officials about psychology

Greater Boston Area

• Lead and organize data collection team for project examining facial expressions
• Guided participants through a study using eye tracking software
• Contributed to group discussions on ongoing studies and theories of the lab
• Maintained confidentiality of participants’ identities and data